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W. E. STEELE.

.WATER GAS BURNER.

Patented May 7,1889..

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W. P. STEELE. WATER GAS4 BURNER.

N0..402,99`5. Patented May 7, 1889.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILBUR F. STEELE, OF STEELE, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

wgTER-GAS BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,995, dated May 7, 1889.

Application led April 8, 1889. Serial No. 306,401. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,-

Be it known that I, VVILBUR F. STEELE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Steele, in the county of Kidder and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Gas Burners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates generally to watergas burners for heating railway-cars, boilers, vessels, houses, and other structures, and particularly to water-gas burners in which hydrocarbon oil is mixed with steam and then vaporized; and it consists in the improved construction and arrangement or combination of parts hereinafter fully disclosed in the description, drawings, and claims.

The objects of my invention are, iirst, to provide improved means for vaporizin g water or generating steam within a watergas burner; second, to provide improved means for superheating the vaporized water or generated steam, and, third, to provide improved means for mingling` the steam and hydrocarbon oil and burning the same. These objects are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which the same reference-numerals indicate the same or equivalent parts, and in which- Figure l representsa vertical section oi' the preferred form of my improved water-gas burner; Fig. 2, asimilar view of another form of my invention for generating steam by the main water-gas burner and supplying the same to a number of supplemental burners; and Figs. 3 and 4, vertical sections of other forms of my improved water-gas burner, all embodying the same principle or mode of operation.

In Fig. l of the drawings, the numeral l indicates the supply-pipe, which extends from a suitable water-supply source, is provided with suitable stop cocks or valves (not shown) for regulating the supply of water to the vaporizing or steam-generating chamber, the various forms of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and which is provided with a top plate or disk,2. The burncrnnozzle lis arranged above this disk and connected with the oil-pipe 4, which enters said burner-nozzle at its side and passes up inside of the same, so that the jet of oil which passes out of said burner-nozzle through the exit-opening 5 in the upper end of said pipe may be mingled with the steam which passes up through the contracted space existing between said burner-nozz'le and oil-pipe and be vaporized and burned.

In Fig. l of the drawings the vaporizing or steam-generating chamber 2 is made in the form of an inverted truncated cone and provided with a vertical feed-pipe, 6, at its bottom, and,I with a iiange, 7, at its top. The water-supply pipe enters the side of said feed-pipe 6, and a valved blow-off pipe, 8, connects with said feed-pipe below said water-supply pipe. A cup or receiver, 9, is suitably secured to and around said feedpipe and extends out beyond the edge of the vaporizing or steam-generating chamber. An

Vannular plate or disk, 10, is loosely mounted within and close to the top 7 of said Vaporizing-chamber, and has adiameter slightly less than the interior diameter of said chamber, whereby a small space is left between its periphery and the top of said chamber. This plate or disk rises and falls within said vaporizing-chamber, allowing more or less vapor to escape therefrom, according to its pressure against said disk.

An upright pipe, ll, is attached to and communicates with the top of the vaporizingchamber near the periphery thereof, and communicates with and supports a superheatingchamber, l2, which in this instance is made of an annular pipe. and which is arranged-'a short distance above the top of said vaporizfv 1,

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essary amountI ot' heat for properly starting the b urner. The steam will then pass up through the upright pipe 1.1,leadingl'ro1n the top of said chamber, and enter thesuperheating-chamber, where it will be further heated. Thence it will pass down through the pipe 13 and inward to the burner-nozzle. In this burner-nozzle the superheatedsteam, which passes up in a thin annular iilm around the upturned end of the oil-pipe, will mingle with the jet of oil issuing from the latter and generate a high degree of heat, due to their being combined ortransformed into water-gas and then burned.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings the super-heatingchamber is dispensed with and the vaporizin g or steam-generating chamber of Fig. 1 used foran oil-vaporizing chamber, 2, the oil being introduced through the pipes 1 and G and into the lower portion of said chamber. On the top plate or disk, 2', of this vaporizingchamber is formed or secured a cylinder, 15, which surrounds the burner-nozzle and directs the iiame upward against thcbottom of a boiler, 16, which is supported upon legs 1G', resting upon the top plate or disk of said vaporizing-chamber.

The 4boiler 16 is provided with a pipe, 17, (one or more,) which passes out from its top and conveys the steam generated therein either through the pipe it and into the burnernozzle 3, or through the branch pipes 18,which are provided with stop-cocks 19 and lead to other or supplemental water-gas burners which preferably have burner-nozzles of the construction shown in the drawings, consisting of the steam-pipe 1S and the oil-pipe 18, joined, communicating, and forming the noz- Zles 3; but any other suitable form of watergas burners or burner-nozzles may be cmployed. In Fig. 3 of the drawings the watersupply pipe 1 is shown as entering the center of a coiled pipe constituting the vaporizing or steam -generating chamber 2, from the outer coil of which the pipe 11 extends downward and inward and terminates in the burner-nozzle 3, into which, also, the oil-pipe 4 enters. This burnernozzle is also surrounded by a cylinder, 1.5, which directs the ilame upward and concentrates the same upon the coiled-pipe vaporizing or steamgenerating chamber.

In Fig. 4.- of the drawings the vaporizing or steam generating chamber 2 is shown as formed 'of a hollow or double-walled cylinder having the water-supply pipe 1 entering its lower end and a downwardly and inwardly projecting steam-pipe, 21, which is arranged inside of said chamber, extending from the top thereof, and is enlarged at its inwardlyprojecting lower end to form the burner-noz- Zle 3. This vaporizing-chamber surrounds saidburn er-nozzle, and consequently is heated interiorly thereby. A dei'lector, 22, is supported upon legs 23, resting upon the top of said chamber, and opera-tes to deflect the heat from said burner-nozzle down upon the top of said chamber, and thus practically superheat the steam therein.

The cup or receiver 9, (shown in all of the figures of the drawings,) which may be supported in any suitable manner, serves to receive any oil, solid carbon, or condensed vapor that may drop or escape from the burnernozzle and the water or steam pipes; also, it serves to receive oil with which to start the vaporizatiun oi' the water and oil. when thc burner is being placed in operation.

Then the main water-gas burner illustrated in Fig. 2 is employed in connection with a number of thc auxiliary or supplemental burners, the steam for supplying all of said burners is generated in the boiler 16, which supplies the steam not only to said main burner, but to thc supplemental burners, until the latter .receive a sufficient amount thereof to mingle with the vaporized oil therein, the oil being supplied to said supplemental burners in the same manner as to the main burner. rlhis boiler is provided with a water-supply pipe, 1G', and a valved blow-olii pipe, 16".

It will be evident from the foregoing that either the steam-pipe or oil-pipe may enter the burner-nozzle and eject therefrom iilms of steam and vaporized oil, which, when mingled, constitute a water-gas of superior grade for all kinds of heating purposes.

Having thus fully described the construction and arrangement or combination of the several parts of my improved water-gas burner and its operation, what l claim as new is- 1. In a watengas burner, the combination, with a vaporizing-chamber and a burner-nozzle communicating therewith, oi' a supplyn pipe projecting into and extending upwardly within said burner-nozzle and leaving a contracted space beneath the same, a valved blow-off pipe connected to said 4vaporizingchamber, and asuitably-secured cup or receiver arranged beneath said burner, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a water-gasburner, the combination,

with a vaporiZing-chamber and a superheating-chamber arranged above the same and communicating therewith, of a burner-nozzle arranged below said superheating-chamber and above said vaporizing-chamber, a supply-pipe connecting said superheating-chamber and burner-nozzle, and another supplypipe communicating with said burner-nozzle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In a water-gas burner, the combination, with a vaporizing-chamber and asuperheating-chamber arranged above the same and communicating therewith, of a burner-nozzle arranged below said superheating-chamber and above said vaporizing-chamber, a supply-pipe connecting said superheating-chamber and. burner-nozzle, and another supplypipe projecting into the side of and extending upwardly within said burner-nozzle and IIC ITS

leaving a contracted space between the same, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a water-gas burner, the combination, with a Vaporizingchamber, of a looselymounted annular plate or disk arranged close beneath the top of said chamber, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a watergas burner, the combination, with a vaporizing-chamber and a superheating-chamber arranged above the same and communicating therewith, of a loosely-mount` ed annular plate or disk arranged close beneath the top of said vaporizing-chamber, substantially as and Jfor the purpose described.

6. In a water-gas burner, the combination', with a vaporizing-chamber and a superheating-chamber arranged above the same and communicating therewith, of a burner-nozzle arranged below said superheating-chamber and above said vaporiZing-chamber, alooselymounted annular plate or disk arranged close beneath the top of said vaporizing-chamber, a supply-pipe connecting the latter and said burner-nozzle, and another supply-pipe communicating with said burner-nozzle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7. In a water-gas burner, the combination,

Awith the water-vaporizing chamber 2, the

water-supply pipe l, communicating therewith, and the superheating-chamber l2, arranged above said Water-vaporizing chamber, of the upright pipe ll, which connects said chamber, the burner-nozzle 3, arranged intermediate of said chambers, the downwardlyT and inwardly extending steam-pipe 13 14, connecting said superheating-ohamber and burner-nozzle, and the oil-pipe 4, projecting into and extending upwardly Within said burner-nozzle and leaving a contracted space between the same, substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. In a water-gas burner, the combination, with the Water-vaporizing chamber 2, the feed-pipe 6, having the Valved blow-off pipe 8, the Watersupply pipe Land the cup or receiver 9, of t-he superheating-chamber 12, the upright pipe ll, the downwardly and inwardly extending steam-pipe 13, the burner-nozzle 3, and the oil-pipe 4, having the exit-opening 5, and forming a contracted space between itself and said burner-nozzle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILBUR F. STEELE.

Witnesses:

Roer. MASON, TOM R. STUART. 

